Decided on policy for documentation spelling

[sbesson]

Historical convention of using American spelling has been removed from Sphinx doc policies for 4.4.4.

Due to our inability to make a team decision, the absence of spelling guideline prevents any doc PR to be accepted for 4.5 at this point.

Some aspects that may be taken into account:

• impact of this choice on the audience?
• language of the major contributor(s) to the documentation?
• consistency with API docs (largely using American English)

[jmoore]

I'd agree this should be decided next Tues. Might need some preparation before hand.

[eehill]

For info, journals adopt the spelling of the country where their HQ is based:

• PLOS has American English as HQ is in San Francisco, despite their also having a UK office.
• Nature and all Nature journals use British English as their HQ is London (although they also have many other offices globally).
• Note that readership/userbase is not considered with this at all, as they all have global audiences (users)

One other point for consideration might be the funding body's location. I am not sure how much WT/BBSRC would care, but if the money is British...

Just my 2p worth, for whatever value they might still have... (I am actually sorry I will miss this discussion though)

[sbesson]

Use American spelling. For more information, see:

​https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/minutes/conference-calls/2012/2012-10-02-tuesday-meeting

​http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/mailman/private/ome-nitpick/2012-October/004596.html